Anyone get Designer and DirectStore working? I'm new to ExtJS so I'm a little stumped.

I did get my Login screen to functioin correctly so I have the environment setup correctly.

So for the DirectStore, in Designer I created a DirectStore and then a Grid. Within the grid I referenced the direct store and then mapped the columns of the grid to the direct store. As I debug from the Java side, I never see an incoming request. In the browser i do see the grid but it's empty.

Does anyone have an example of Designer / DirectStore / DirectJNgine ?????

I'm new with ExtJS so if this has been addressed elsewhere, sorry but I couldn't find anything.

I created a test Grid / DirectStore in Designer modeled after the DirectStoreDemo. When I run I get two errors in FireBug:
1. DirectStoreDemo is not defined. directFn: DirectStoreDemo.loadExperienceData
2. this.ds is undefined - I think it's related to above but not sure

The grid does display but there is no data. Here are the generated classes from Designer followed by my test.html and index.js

Anyone get Designer and DirectStore working? I'm new to ExtJS so I'm a little stumped.
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Does anyone have an example of Designer / DirectStore / DirectJNgine ?????

Barton,

Unfortunately, full Designer integration is not built-in into DJN, due to a lack of time. And, to be fair, nobody really asked me for it up until now.

If somebody is willing to undertake the effort and contribute this to DJN, he will be welcome.
When I took a first look at it, it seemed it would be relatively easy: I estimated between 10 and 25 hours to have it developed + full tests including automated unit tests + a new User's Guide chapter.

If you could provide me some direction I would gladly look into this integration - it would help me learn more about ExtJS and Designer and DJN - which is a good thing. My project will grow over time and i want to do all the UI work in Designer so it would benefit me to have this functionality.

Please send me your thoughts on the approach and how best to come up to speed. I haven't looked at the supporting infrastructure to this point so I could use some guidance on that.

I recently picked up ExtJS and want to use directJNgine. What I'm confused about is the server side. I've read throughout the forum that people aren't using Spring Security.

Are people just writing their own home grown solutions for authentication? I want to keep my solution simple and thinking about bringing in Spring Acegi concerns me. My current thoughts are to use a javascript library for MD5 and to convert the password before sending it for database validation on the server. I have that roughed out and it seems to work ok.

Do you have any paper about best practice wrt this security issue? What security concerns do I have if I just check that each class accessed has a user in a valid session and if not send them to the login page?

That's pretty much all information I've got about supporting Designer.

It should not be very difficult to modify the way I generate source code on the fly to generate it in the format required by Designer: take a look at the AppEngine chapter in the User's Guide for details on generating code that way.